By Kathy Lally,
MOSCOW — Just days after the United States withdrew from a joint panel on civil society, Russia said Wednesday that it was dropping out of an agreement that provided help from the United States in fighting narcotics and human trafficking and enhancing the rule of law.
The announcement, made in a curt statement signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and posted on the government Web site, bore signs of another apparent tit for tat over the U.S. Magnitsky Act. The statement said the agreement, reached in 2002 and intended to improve enforcement of intellectual property rights, was canceled because it “does not address current realities and has exhausted its potential.”
MOSCOW — Just days after the United States withdrew from a joint panel on civil society, Russia said Wednesday that it was dropping out of an agreement that provided help from the United States in fighting narcotics and human trafficking and enhancing the rule of law.
The announcement, made in a curt statement signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and posted on the government Web site, bore signs of another apparent tit for tat over the U.S. Magnitsky Act. The statement said the agreement, reached in 2002 and intended to improve enforcement of intellectual property rights, was canceled because it “does not address current realities and has exhausted its potential.”
